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Staying Upright
Mar. 12th, 2011 03:44 pmThis week has been chaotic and worrying for the world and it seems most of my friends' list. I spent most of yesterday trying to think of who I know on the West Coast, Hawaii and in Japan. Today my mom forwarded me emails that let me know that everyone we know is safe, but the size and scale of the destruction is terrifying.
Yesterday I kept having such sharp moments of deja vu to the Boxing Day tsunami and that feeling of worry and helplessness. I'm grateful and slightly shocked at how quickly we know things now, it connects us but also is scary when videos of people's lives being destroyed are played over and over. I will find ways to make a difference because everything can help and I think that's what counts to remember at times like this. People matter and anytime you can reach out and show that you're there and you care does do something.
I need to do some errands but I think I'm going to do the census meme later and I'm debating starting the seven sins one. I'm getting to the downhill part of my semester when there's something to do everyday.
At the moment I'm investigating classes to take this summer and trying to figure out where the English and Classics' departments hide their course schedules. Probably on Tuesday, I'm going to just walk over and ask for some help since I've found that works better. I checked in with the woman who's been helping me figure out how to graduate and I had a quick talk with her yesterday basically confirming that once I get the class figured to email her and the registrar.
It seems if I want to I could actually walk at the SI graduation in April, but I find I actually don't care too much. I want a job and my diploma, I really enjoyed my undergrad graduation but this one that ceremony doesn't seem as key. Though I have been thinking about getting in contact with Victoria and seeing how tricky it would be actually get a diploma for my Bachelor of Honours since I did complete that. I seem to be writing a lot of these roundabout entries but that's where my thoughts are, getting things sorted and seeing what I can do.
Yesterday I kept having such sharp moments of deja vu to the Boxing Day tsunami and that feeling of worry and helplessness. I'm grateful and slightly shocked at how quickly we know things now, it connects us but also is scary when videos of people's lives being destroyed are played over and over. I will find ways to make a difference because everything can help and I think that's what counts to remember at times like this. People matter and anytime you can reach out and show that you're there and you care does do something.
I need to do some errands but I think I'm going to do the census meme later and I'm debating starting the seven sins one. I'm getting to the downhill part of my semester when there's something to do everyday.
At the moment I'm investigating classes to take this summer and trying to figure out where the English and Classics' departments hide their course schedules. Probably on Tuesday, I'm going to just walk over and ask for some help since I've found that works better. I checked in with the woman who's been helping me figure out how to graduate and I had a quick talk with her yesterday basically confirming that once I get the class figured to email her and the registrar.
It seems if I want to I could actually walk at the SI graduation in April, but I find I actually don't care too much. I want a job and my diploma, I really enjoyed my undergrad graduation but this one that ceremony doesn't seem as key. Though I have been thinking about getting in contact with Victoria and seeing how tricky it would be actually get a diploma for my Bachelor of Honours since I did complete that. I seem to be writing a lot of these roundabout entries but that's where my thoughts are, getting things sorted and seeing what I can do.
